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> No dissection of existing approaches to programming language evangelisation; no analyses of successful approaches and lessons drawn from those with lesser success; no examination…

> The competition isn't even really discussed, how well it did, how many participants it drew, what came out of it. I took the article as an invitation to dig deeper into the compe…

Here are some good resources: https://smalltalk.tech.blog/resources/ . It's a curated list.

> What do you use the Smalltalk system for ? Very few have an answer. I have... You use Smalltalk for back-end web development with tools like Seaside ( http://seaside.st/ ) and Te…

> This article has only one real tip: create a high school programming contest for it. Yes, but this "tip" was demonstrated by an example. The example is a Pharo-based programming …

PHP was in the right place at the right time back in the mid-1990s. It exploited the nascent web and gained a first-starter advantage. In other words, PHP lucked out. Most language…

If you do a sweeping Google search, you will find many Smalltalk posts "from the trenches" over the years. However, they've done little to elevate the language. I disagree that thi…

How well does one need to know Smalltalk before they can promote it? I'm a Smalltalk newbie; I've only been using Smalltalk on and off for the past few years. But I absolutely love…

If I'm not mistaken, he created the following blog: https://smalltalk.tech.blog/ . It contains "solid" articles from Leandro Caniglia and Lorenzo Schiavina. It also contains an art…

> the one productivity study which is by now decades old This study was published within the last decade (2017): https://www.ifpug.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IYSM.-Thirt... . I…

The following tutorial can be finished within 15 minutes: https://amber-lang.net/learn.html . Thereafter, you will know the entire syntax of Smalltalk-80. Is there a Python tutoria…

Indeed, you can. The first thing to learn here is that the hash (#) signifies a literal symbol. So, #a is a symbol, whereas 'a' is a string (of length 1 and containing the characte…